§ SIR SEYMOUR KINGTo ask the Secretary of State for India whether he has now received a reply from the Government of India as to the Government servants who took privilege leave in order to join the Indian Volunteer Contingent which came Home for the Coronation; whether they were informed that they would not receive any pay for the extra period of their detention at Home in consequence of the King's illness; and what decision has been arrived at.
270 (Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) The Government of India have informed me that they have decided that the period of detention in excess of the leave taken by Government servants who came to this country with the Indian Volunteer Contingent for the Coronation shall be treated as duty carrying full pay, and that orders have been issued accordingly.